These names are 'coded' with a phonetic
rendition of nineteenth-century government and missionaries' transcription
of the sounds of Ahnishinahbæótjibway, Ojibwe, Cree and
other
languages. The initial intent, as we began computerization of our
data in the 1980s, was to make it easier to find a person whose name
was spelled variously - using computer searches. The current
'sorting' is an artifact of Microsoft's
programming.